Wrestling: NLS first at BBE Invite

By Tribune Sports

December 02, 2005 at 11:00 PM

BELGRADE -- New London-Spicer senior heavyweight Stephen Westby was named the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Invitational Most Valuable Wrestler Friday night, leading the Wildcats to the title in the season opener.

Westby received a first-round bye, then pinned his next two opponents.

Also winning titles for the Wildcats were: Chad Henle at 103 pounds and Adam Luberts at 145.

The Wildcats had 167 points to 153 for runner-up Browerville/Eagle Valley. BBE was fourth with 127.

Champions for BBE were: Tyler Rath at 119, Danny Borgerding at 130 and Travis Rath at 140.

Team scoring

(1) New London-Spicer 167 (2) Browerville/Eagle Valley 153 (3) Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton 142 (4) Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa 127 (5) Holdingford 114 (6) Eden Valley-Watkins 96 (7) Rockford 33 (8) Bonanza Valley 0

How area wrestlers fared

Key: (Weight, name, won-loss, falls)

Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa

103: Matt Gregory 0-2 ... 112: Anthony Rooney 1-1 (1), 2nd place .... 119: Tyler Rath 3-0 (2), 1st place ... 125: Cole Tensen 1-2 (1)... 130: Danny Borgerding 3-0 (3), 1st place ... 135: Austin Kampsen 2-1 (1), 2nd place ... 140: Travis Rath 3-0 (2), 1st place ... 145: Anthony Tullis 2-1 (2), 3rd place ... 152: Aaron Rooney 0-2 ... 160: Tomy Schroeder 0-2 ... 171: Open ... 189: Dustin Mueller 1-2 (1), 4th place ... 215: Open ... 275: Open

New London-Spicer

103: Chad Henle 3-0 (3), 1st place ... 112: Open .... 119: Luke Reiter 3-1 (2), 3rd place ... 125: Billy Dean 2-1 (1), 2nd place ... 130: Brandon Keller 1-1 (1), 2nd place ... 135: Chris DeLong 2-2 (1), 4th place ... 140: John Netling 1-2 (1), 4th place ... 145: Adam Luberts 2-0 (2), 1st place ... 152: Open ... 160: Levi Schultz 1-1, 2nd place ... 171: Ben Koch 1-2 (1) ... 189: Collin Ruter 2-1 (1), 3rd place ... 215: Paul Peterson 2-2 (2), 4th place ... 275: Stephen Westby 2-0 (2), 1st place

Non-Conference BOLD/BL-Hector 44, Dassel-Cokato 22

Pins from Luke Kramer at 130, Mark Revier at 145, Tom Elfering at 160, Mark Pietig at 171 and Ben Aaseth at heavyweight helped BOLD/Buffalo Lake-Hector cruise in its opener.

103: Brett Jahnke, B, maj Zach Peterson 10-1

112: Brent Aho, DC, pin Mick Squibb 4:34

119: Tanner Dobmeier, D, maj Tom Brenner 12-3

125: Ross Neubauer, BBLH, maj Sam Fitzer 11-5

130: Luke Kramer, B, pin Jake Thompson 4:15

135: Chris Harmon, B, dec Brandon Opsahl 6-2

140: Kurt Salmen, DC, dec Cole Neubauer 5-2

145: Mark Revier, BBLH, pin Shane Swenson 3:42

152: Luke Aho, DC, pin Nick Bauman 5:09

160: Tom Elfering, BBLH, pin Steve Rahkola 1:44

171: Mark Pietig, BBLH, pin Dan Larson 2:53

189: Brian Hagen, BBLH, maj Tony Larson 11-3

215: Will Bayuk, DC, maj Zach Kopel 10-8

275: Ben Aaseth, B, pin Chuck Pokornowski 5:27

Redwood Valley 36, GFW/MLW 33

Alex Knoblach at 119 and Nick Hodgson at 135 posted pins and Brian Anderson won by a major decision at 189 for Redwood Valley, which jumped out to a 18-0 lead against Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop/McLeod West.

103: Brandon Swoboda, RV, won by forfeit

112: Dominic Sweepman, RV, won by forfeit

119: Alex Knoblach, RV, pin Angel Munoz 2:48

125: Cory Lehrke, GFW, pin John Schroeder 2:59

130: Elais Webster, GFW, pin Jacob Harazin 1:00

135: Nick Hodgson, RV, pin Brad Nelson 4:38

140: Nick Petersen, RV, dec Scott Janowski 11-5

145: Zac Neubarth, GFW, pin Jared Schiller :47

152: Brady Myers, RV, dec Nick Neubarth 7-5

160: Ross Potter, RV, dec Bryant Nordby 6-4

171: Lincoln Messner, GF, dec Brennan Hagert 8-1

189: Brian Anderson, RV, maj Andy Hoffman 13-5